 | | Reason.tv: Porker of the Month (August 2010) - Rep. Hal Rogers!
Reason.tv presents Citizens Against Government Waste's Porker of the Month for August 2010: Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)!
Conservation or nepotism? Since 2007 Rogers has been promoting a bill which would provide federal grants to overseas wildlife protection for lions and cheetahs. Surprise! Rogers' daughter is the grants administrator for the Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund, and has been since-you guessed it-2007.
Congratulations, Hal!
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When They Were Out to Get Us: The paranoid days of the 1970s
During the 1970s, conspiracy theories infected the thinking of an astonishing number of clever people-prime ministers, presidents, journalists, and movie directors-as well as the hoi polloi. When something went wrong-a leader deposed, a president shot-it was invariably blamed on the machinations of government, business, and intelligence community conspirators. It was Them. In his review of Francis Wheen's new book Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia , Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan notes that the reason it feels like those strange days are back is because they never really went away.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/24/when-they-were-out-to-get-us
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Lessons from the Bell, California Fiasco: High government salaries means soaring pensions that taxpayers cannot afford.
The City of Bell, California has become the poster child for bad government. Exorbitant salaries, lavish pension benefits, a looming default on $35 million in city bonds, and illegal property taxes have all come to light recently. And as Reason Foundation policy analyst Adam B. Summers writes, the Bell scandal is a microcosm of a new class struggle-in California and across the nation-between taxpayers and government employees.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/08/24/lessons-from-the-bell-californ
Hit & Run, Reason's Staff Blog
The Stem Cell War Heats Up Again
A federal district court judge in Washington, DC, ruled yesterday that federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research violates the Dickey Amendment, passed in 1995, that forbids the use of federal funds to create of human embryos for research purposes or for research in which human embryos are destroyed. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations had thought that they had artfully gotten around this restriction by regulatory interpretations. The National Institutes of Health concluded that while the government could not pay for the creation and derivation of embryonic stem cells federally funded researchers could use such cells once they had been derived....
Read the rest here.
Posted by Ronald Bailey
http://reason.com/blog/2010/08/24/the-stem-cell-war-heats-up
Daily Brickbat
Letter of the Law
After the Oconee County, South Carolina, courthouse opened seven years ago, federal officials found the $8 million building contained 93 violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. For instance, the centers of the toilets are 19 inches from the wall, not 18 inches as required. And the mirrors in the restrooms are 41 inches from the floor, not 40. It will cost just over $2 million to bring the courthouse up to standard. The county sued its architect and builder, and they will pay a little more than $1 million for the work, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the rest.
http://www.reason.com/brickbat/
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